"Wisdom is exercised in the choices you make."
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"Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness."
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"We still have a choice today: nonviolence coesistence or violent coannihilation."
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"Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons."
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"The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness."
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"Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I've also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband."
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"In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us.""
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"I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about those are always the wrong choices."
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"Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices."
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"All is context. Choose yours carefully, where you have a choice."
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"Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices about their families, they tend to decide precisely what demographers, economists, and development experts recommend. They invest in the long-term human capital of their families."
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"Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims."
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"When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so."
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"It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make."
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"In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice."
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"If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world."
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"The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of the planet, it can be a conscious choice. Who is making that choice? You are. And who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself."
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"I just remember music always being a part of my life. I was never like, "I'm gonna be a rock star," or "I'm gonna be in a band." It was more "I just play piano, and I'm always going to play piano. That's who I am and that's cool." I think music became so ingrained in me that it was not even my choice."
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"I would always say to anyone, you make choices that are important to you. Don't allow yourself to be exploited by something as fleeting as fame and fortune. If you're presenting yourself in a way that important to you in communicating your vision, then so be it. No one should allow themselves to be exploited ever."
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"When we were shooting the movie, and of course in the editing room we had to make choices, but the shots fall almost exactly where we thought they would. They're not about content; they're never meant to be about what just happened. There's that weird phenomenon where the more you like a movie the more your mind wanders and goes all over the place."
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